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Third letter of the Latin alphabet, second consonant. Phonetic names: 1) "voiceless velar plosive" (hard); sound: press your tongue against your velum and release to create a short percussive sound,. 2) "voiceless alveolar sibilant" (soft); sound: hiss like a snake. In Egyptian, four hieroglyphs pronounced similar to 'C': a cup, a water basin, a folded cloth, and a lock. In Phoenician/Hebrew, started as letter as 'G' ( gimel. Meaning camel (or possibly "throwing stick"? Which refers to humanity's complet...
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Sixth letter of the Latin alphabet, fourth consonant. Phonetic name: "voiceless labiodental fricative" ( fricare. Latin "to rub"); sound: put your top teeth on your bottom lip and blow. In Egyptian, the hieroglyph represented a horned snake. Proto-Sinaitic symbol "waw" was a drawing of a hook, nail or club (vertical stroke topped with a circle). Phoenicians adopted the shape and opened the top circle - associated with a headrest, a phallus or oarlock. Y) pronounced "y", and consonant digamma. Lower case ...
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Nineteenth letter of the Latin alphabet, fifteenth consonant. Phonetic name: "voiceless alveolar sibilant"; sound: place your tongue behind your top teeth and gently whistle some air between them. Egyptian hieroglyph was a folded cloth, a lock or a water basin. Proto-Sinaitic sign was teeth, breasts or a bowl; adopted by the Phoenicians as shin. Written like our W). Greeks adopted it as their letter sigma. Upper case Σ, lower case σ or ς). In Roman, S was a sign for silence. Generally speaking, the lette...
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Seventeenth letter of the Latin alphabet, thirteenth consonant. Phonetic name: "velar voiceless plosive"; sound: push your tongue against your velum and make a pop of air without using your vocal chords. Egyptian hieroglyph was a sandy slope or hill. Pronounced "oof") represented the eye of a needle, a double axe, or a monkey (an animal associated with wisdom). Greeks adopted it as their letter qoppa/goppa. In Rome, Q also stood for numeric value 500. In modern English, Q is almost always followed by a U.
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Eighteenth letter of the Latin alphabet, fourteenth consonant. Phonetic name: "alveolar approximant"; sound: place the tip of your tongue close to your alveolar ridge and use your vocal chords to make a slight vibration (n.b.: if you lift your tongue, the sound becomes an 'L'.). Proto-Sinaitic sign was the profile of a head. Egyptian hieroglyph was a mouth. Phoenician letter became resh. Greeks adopted it as their letter rho. Uppercase Ρ, lowercase ρ); also had a value of 100. R in a circle, , is the reg...
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Second letter of the Latin alphabet, first consonant. Numeric value represents duality: B=2. Phonetic name: "voiced bilabial plosive"; sound: put your lips together and release with a short percussive POP of air as you feel your vocal cords hum. Plosive" = putting lips together and forcing air out through them). In Egyptian, the "bee" sound was represented by a hieroglyph of a foot. In Phoenician/Hebrew, can be traced to a pictogram of a house floorplan / shelter ( beth. Adopted by Greeks into beta.
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Twelfth letter of the Latin alphabet, ninth consonant. Phonetic name: "alveolar lateral approximant"; sound: place your tongue on your alveolar ridge and vocalize, allowing air to pass through the sides (n.b.: if you relax your tongue, the sound becomes an 'R'.). Egyptian hieroglyphs were a lion and a mouth. Adopted by Semites as lamed. A goad, which is a guiding device used to herd cattle, like a shepherd's staff) - as such, it imparted discipline, instruction and education. Λ upper case, λ lower case).
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Sixteenth letter of the Latin alphabet, twelfth consonant. Phonetic name: "voiceless bilabial plosive"; sound: put your lips together and release with a short percussive POP of air (note the similarity to B, without the buzz of the vocal cord). Egyptian hieroglyph was a rectangular chair or mat. The name for the letter in the Phoenician and Hebrew alphabets is pe. Pronounced "peh"), which means "mouth". Greeks adopted it as their letter pi. In Roman, 'P' once represented 400. P is common in Latin and Gre...
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Seventh letter of the Latin alphabet, fifth consonant. Phonetic names: 1) "voiced velar plosive" (hard); sound: press the back of your tongue onto your velum and make a short sound using your vocal cords,. 2) "voiced postalveolar affricate" (soft); sound: press the middle of your tongue gently against the back of your upper teeth, and make a slight buzzy sound with your vocals cords. In Egyptian, four hieroglyphs pronounced similar to 'G': a jar, a handled basket, a hill, and a cobra. G' also has an elem...
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Eighth letter of the Latin alphabet, sixth consonant. Phonetic name: "voiceless glottal fricative"; sound: imagine your hands are cold and blow on them to warm them up. Egyptian hieroglyphs included a courtyard within a house, a reed hut, a rope made of woven flax, a cow udder/stomach with tail, or a sieve. Semitic symbol, heth. Stood for a wall, fence, field or enclosure (with two, three or four crossbars). In Roman, 'H' represents 200. H' has an anomalous name, " aitch. Circa 800 A.D. H' nouns get trea...
